E3: Mass Effect 2 in action

Although we're far from done with the E3 videos, here's our special end of the show treat. Shot 10 minutes before the final curtain fall, a four minutes long sequence of Mass Effect 2, just for your eyes. You'll see Shepard and his team leading a violent assault on a space station in a barrage of laser and biotic magic.

LOL, what have you guys been smoking? It looks exactly the same as in the first game. Which is not a bad thing at all, because the first game lacked only in side missions. This mission plays exactly like any of the later story missions in Mass Effect, only difference is that it's much darker and the lighting effects are more interesting. But the actual combat gameplay is 1:1 from the first game.

2) Assign positions to your squad members in real-time? (in the 360 version)

3) Administer destructive headshots and dismantle enemies bit-by-bit?

This is MUCH better than the previous game and will add a lot more tactical oomph to the gameplay. Oh, and I don't smoke (smoking is for retards who have no concept of cancer, strokes and the fact it makes them stink).

i wonder why som any seems to play male character, as that one... can it get more boring visually?

however, the game looks good, but i hope there will be som nice outdoor environments of the same kind as the first planet in the original, for instance (think it was called "prime" something). you know, with trees, kickass lighting, and stuff. would be boring if it only will be generic dark space-ships and that kind of stuff, but thats my opinion

Posted by spif2001@blmbox It won't - Mass Effect 3 will take that title... :)

Aah, touché!

And Nepton, you're thinking of Eden Prime; the first planet you visit. But yeah, I agree that the planets need to have a lot more variety about them. I personally found it quite difficult to motivate myself to go on side missions, because everywhere you visited lacked personality.

It sounds like they're going to improve that though, amongst many other things.

Wow it really does look like they fixed the little things that were missing before.

i loved the story, loved the game itself, but it just needed... more and they seem to be bringing it the "weapons that kill a 1000 times over" sound wicked hehe and was what i was missing i wanted to eventually be able to get something litterally f*cking awesome...

i also hope they do more with the secondary planets and the planets in general the small 2-3 buildings etc wasn't enough and also i hope they give us more control over our ship.

KORNdog
that's my understanding of it anyway based on the little i've read about it. seems like it'll happen though. (19 minutes ago)

KORNdog
less risks (not like ubi are particualrly great in that regard anyway) and just barrier for them to do their job. (21 minutes ago)

KORNdog
@Moonwalker: it would be a conglomerate and that can be creatively very limiting if they don't fully understand the industry they've just dipped their toe in by buying a major publisher. (22 minutes ago)

Sdarts
Also, for the first time in BioWare's history, they are finally using full facial capture to record the actor's performance. Plus its the first time the Mass Effect team is using the Frostbite engine. (29 minutes ago)

nostradamus
@Moonwalker: well, i'll on a leg and say its a "lie". It seems on par with DA:I, and if they think thats fine for a reveal trailer, then it doesn't bode well for the final product. (36 minutes ago)

nostradamus
almost finishing jak and daxter. So much fun. Whay are a pos knack 2 being made, and not a new Jak? (43 minutes ago)